Ondo community vows not to vote for Oke

RESIDENTS of Ala Goke in Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State have vowed not to vote for the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olusola Oke.

They accused him of abandoning an electricity project contract, which he secured from the Olusegun Agagu administration in 2003.The residents drew the attention of Governor Olusegun Mimiko to the project during his campaign tour of the area at the weekend.

They vowed not to vote for Oke or any of his party members in future elections until he completes the project.
The people noted that by Oke’s action, the agrarian community has been in darkness since then.

Speaking through one of its leaders, Mr. Moses Oladeji, the community said the electricity project was awarded to Chief Olusola Oke by the immediate past Dr. Olusegun Agagu led administration in year 2003 and has since been left uncompleted. The people noted that for Oke, it was now time for reckoning as they would ensure that he did not get a single vote from them.

Dr Olusegun Mimiko who was in the community to commission a Health Centre constructed by his administration was briefed further of the agony being experienced by the people of the community as a result of the abandonment of the project. They called on the governor to assist them in calling the attention of the PDP governorship candidate to the project which they believe would connect them to the outside world.

Mimiko assured the people that he will do something on the project as soon as he received detailed reports on the project. He stated that he would not allow any project to be left uncompleted by any contractor, especially when such contractor had been paid for the contract.

Dr Mimiko who also disclosed that the Health Centre project which was one of the 64 projects executed by his administration in Idanre Local government in the last three and a half years of the Labour party administration in the state.

According to him, the health Centre which was constructed by Idanre local Government would go a long way in bailing the people out of the problems of travelling several kilometres whenever in need of health care services.

Mimiko promised that he would use his second term in office to provide more social infrastructure for the people of the area especially road construction for the community to be linked to their neighbouring communities. The Labour party Governorship candidate who turned the campaign tour to a season of project commissioning also commissioned a block of six classrooms at Ala-Elefosan Community High School to replace the old school structure built since 1978.

Addressing the people of the community Dr Mimiko appealed to all ethnic groups living in different parts of Idanre land and the state at large to live peacefully with their host communities; warning parents against planting seeds of discord among their children who he described as the core of the unity of the country, adding that parents should not leave a legacy of discord among their children.

The governor who noted that no physical development can take place in any environment devoid of peace appealed to the hosting communities to see non-indigenes living among them as fellow Nigerians.

According to him, the development witnessed in the last three and a half years of the Labour Party administration was as a result of the efforts of his administration to restore peace to the state, calling on the people of the state to work towards the sustenance of peace among them.

The governor described the school project as a demonstration of his administration’s resolve to improve on the standard of education in the state and government intervention to make learning more conducive for students at all levels of education.

Soliciting for votes of the people in Oct 20 governorship election, Governor Mimiko assured the people of the state to use his second term in office to extend his transformational revolution to all nooks and crannies of the state, adding that his administration would meet the needs of the people of the state.

The Governor who also visited Owena town was received to the town with songs and dance by the people in appreciation of various developmental projects executed in their area by the state government.

Addressing the people, Mimiko assured them that his administration will continue to bring the dividends of democracy to the doorsteps of every community by embarking on projects that will transform the lives of the people. He noted that all projects executed in different parts of the state were done according to the request of the people, adding that no project was forcibly executed in any community in the state.

Receiving hundreds of defectors from the opposition parties led by Hon Adeolu Oluwatuyi, Governor Mimiko noted that only the Labour Party administration in the state could meet the needs of the people through its Caring Heart Programmes. The good work his administration and the urban-rural transformational programmes of the Labour Partyled administration, Mimiko stated, had touched the lives of everybody in the state, adding that people should be expecting more during his second term.

The leader of the defectors Mr. Adeolu Oluwatuyi said that he decided to dump PDP for Labour Party in consideration of overwhelming performances of Labour Party administration in the last three and a half years of its governance.
According to him, the good work executed by the governor and his selfless services to the people of the state had endeared him into the heart of people, including members of the opposition party.

Oluwatuyi, therefore, promised to work with the leaders of the Labour Party in the Local government to ensure total victory for Labour Party candidate in Oct 20 election.